Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-05-18
STREET PAVING.
rHB LIyBLIEsr DEBATE OF THE SEASON IN
COUNCIL.
Mssss. Jaeger, Grlse Caldwell and Robertson In
dulgSn Big Tall" -ThsNsw Ordi-
nance Bias q Majority.

to suspend the rules and take mp licenses,
and the motion prevailing the following
applications to keep cofee-houses were
granted:
B. Shalrey, at No. q Eleventh street.
Frank Healy, at No. 1900 Market street.
The Branch then took up the pending I'M
finished business, it being the ordinance sub
mitted by Mr.. Jaeger at the last meeting,
making appropriations for carrying on the
city government for the current fiscal year,
and repeating the ordinance lately passed
by Council. The ordinance differed from
its predecessor in that it only provided foT
the completion of last years street paving
contracts, leaving the remainder Of
the money appropriated to tht
Board of Public Works IN
the hands of the Board, to use as the mem-
bers thereof might deem judicious. The
paper had been read first time at the last
regular meeting, and had gone over On OBJ
lection by Mr.. Cruise. After the first sec
ton had been read a second time Nor
amendment and debate the Chair called
for objections. None were offered, and the
Clerk started upon the second section.
Before he had gone far, however, it
became apparent that the members
did not understand the measure,
and one or two enquiries, made
a moment later, confirmed this impression.
Mr.. Caldwell took the floor and threw
little light upon the matter, and after one
or two inquiries had been addressed to
him by Mr.. Mitchell and Others the
Branch showed disposition to 60 along
smoothly. Just at this moment, however,
Mr.. Jaeger took the floor. He said he had
not intended to say q word this evening,
but conversation in the
corridor before the session Began
made it necessary for him to speak, Mr..
Jaeger then proceeded to say that he had
been told that q member Of the Board of
Public Works had said to q member of
Council that he intended to have eight
squares of street paved in the Eight ward.
Mr.. Jaeger wanted to say that no such re-
mark had ever been made by any member
of the Board The Board intended I'd COM
mence work in the First ward and the money
would never hold ont until the lower end
of the city had been reached. In fact, he
did not believe the Sixth ward would get
any paving, and the Fifth ward veryflittle.
The speaker took occasion to say the Board
was doing right in commencing sat the
upper end of the city and going right
through. He had no interest in the mat
ter; he was not Logging for the Eighth
ward, but he simply wanted to do the best
he could for the people of the entire city.
Mr.. Cruise took the floor with fire 10 his
eve. He believed he was the gentleman
alluded to by themember from the Eighth
ward, and this being 80, he desired tOiim-
press the fact upon Mr.. Jaeger that the
conversation referred to by Mr.. Jaeger had
taken place, his denial to the contrary
Notwithstanding. The member Of the
Board who made the remark was Mr..
John II. Hobbs and the lOcalityi was
the corner of Main and Twenty
second street. He could prove the state
ment by credible witnesses. The speaker
was perfectly sober on that Dight, but\be
was sorry he could not say the same for
some others who were present. Mr.. Jaeger
dare not impute the credibility of those
witnesses. Mr.. Cruise went for Mr. Jaeger
and the Board with great earnestness, and
his remarks in this connection produced
quite sensation. Mr.. Cruise went on to
euloglze the restraining ordinance, and
said it had made city bond equal to U.
S. bond.
He was followed by Mr.. Rob-
ertsOn, who defended the plan
of expenditure outlined in his
Substitute" with much earnestness The
speaker had been guilty of no undetermined
work but on the contrary had ever worked
openly and publicly. His course had been
honorable, and he deied any man to say
to the contrary. Continuing, Mr.. Robert
son referred to the work being done on
Eighteenth street by the Board, and said
there was a disposition shown to ignOr the
action and orders of COuncil-either that,
or the money OF the people was being de-
liberately wasted.
Mr.. Caldwell rose TO defend the Board
and score Mr.. Robertson. He said the &C
ton of Council in tying the hands of the
Board and inaugurating a system of paw
ing back streets was decidedly wrong, and
he undertook to prove it in half an hours
speech. In the course of his remarks he
said that if the policy of tying up the
members of the Board was persisted in, the
city would find it impossible to secure the
services of good and competent men upon
the Board To this, Mr.. Cruise called at
tention to the fact that Mr.. Fisher had &C
cepted position on the Board after the
adoption of the Robertson substitute.
In reply, Mr.. Caldwell said it was true
Mr.. Fisher had accepted the office, but he
had not agreed to keep it through the term.
Council ought to have confidence in the
members Of the Board.
In this cheerful strain the discussion was
kept up for half an hour longer, when Mr..
Cruise moved to postpone indefinitely.
Upon this the ayes and nays were called, the
vote resulting ayes 10, nays II, as follows:
Ayes-MesSrs. Auber. Cruise, Healy, Nit
chell, Pracht, Robertson, Steger, FOckler,
Warner and Young. NOes-Messrs. Butts,
Bremen, Caldwell, GarYin, Gundling, Har-
rell, Hartong, Jaeger, ones, Kittler, Marsh,
Maxwell, Prayer and Mr.. President-l4.
The reading OF the ordinance was then
concluded without more discussion, and
the ordinance was put upon its final pas
sage. The result was ayes IA, noes 10, as
above. The ordinance thus goes over for
want Of two-thirds.
Mr.. Caldwell offered the following:
ResOlred, That the City Clerk be author
lied to issue his warrants on the City Re-
ceiyer for interest on the outstanding or
ders of the city in favor Of the parties hold
ing the same, at the rate Of six per cent.
interest
Adopted.
The Committee on Markets submitted
bills aggregating $91.75, which were or
dered paid.
An ordinance to amend and reOrdain
section 80 of the ordinance in relation to
Centre Market, specifying that no butcher
shall sell meat other than in a regular
butchers stall, and that no one not having
an inside stall shall sell meat in any small
or quantity than quarter cut in two, was
referred to the Committee on Markets.
An ordinance amending section Of the
regular market ordinance, embOdying the
came provisions so rs to make them APP
ply TO the Second waEd market, was re-
ferret to the same committee.
An ordinance TO amend the existing
ordinance in relation to hawkers and ped
4, IL.